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Dec. 11, 1986 (30 Years Ago)
Franklin Roark was returned to the Oldham County Jail 48 hours after he burrowed through a cell wall and escaped Thursday, Dec. 4. Roark is being held on grand jury indictments from both Trimble and Oldham counties on charges of rape, sodomy, burglary, robbery, and three counts of persistent felony offender and now an escape charge. He was picked up by investigators in Strongville, Ohio, near the home of an ex wife.

By TEENA DRAKE
Special to The Trimble Banner
What is Small Business Saturday? Maybe you saw the commercials leading up to the Saturday after Thanksgiving and wondered what does it mean to shop small? Each year small businesses join together to offer a day of shopping small. According to Tracie Heveline this was created by American Express to help promote entrepreneurs to boost their sales.

Kim Temple, Director, and the cast of “The Guiding Star” are preparing for another landmark performance at the Bedford Christian Church on Friday, Dec. 9th and Saturday, Dec. 10th at 7:00 pm. Admission is free and a fun time guaranteed; not necessarily because of the excellent performance by the actors, but the laughs that will ensue when lines are missed and improvising begins.

Dec. 4, 1986 (30 Years Ago)
The Trimble County Fiscal Court has applied to the Kentuckiana Regional Planning and Development Agency for funds for recreation park additions. According to a KIPDA newsletter the county has requested $30,000 from the Department of the Interior and $30,000 in local funds for the park. The monies will be used to develop a horse barn, show ring, bleachers, parking area, lighting and water. These facilities are being planned for the undeveloped 10 acres which were purchased earlier this year by the court with similar funding.

Are you surrounded by a yard full of leaves every fall? Whether they are yours or the ones that your neighbor’s tree has graciously donated to you, recycling leaves at home can be to your advantage. Composting is an environmentally beneficial process to dispose of leaves and other yard wastes this fall.

By HILDA PARRISH
The Trimble Banner
I post entries on the Trimble County Historical Society’s Facebook page from John L. Wright’s journals he kept from 1909-1943. In the year 1915 at this time of year they were getting ready for “hog-killing.” He wrote that they had gone to get the gammon sticks and I was asked what those were. I know many of the old-timers will remember how this is done and it is a dying art—and farming IS an art.

By CHARLES LISTON
Special to The Trimble Banner
Seven counties services’ name was changed to Centerstone effective Nov. 1. Centerstone is one of the nation’s largest non-profit providers of community- based behavioral health care, offering a full range of mental health services, substance abuse treatment and intellectual and developmental disabilities services in Florida, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, and Tennessee. It serves over 150,000 people of all ages annually.

Editor’s Note: Following is a transcript of the now-famous speech delivered 75 years ago today by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt before a joint session of Congress seeking a declaration of war against Japan on the day following the surprise attack on U.S. military installations in Hawaii.

Mr. Vice President, Mr. Speaker, members of the Senate and the House of Representatives: